Thought Quotes - page 9

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. (Samuel Johnson)
I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject. View quote
Samuel Johnson
This man Chesterfield, I thought, had been a Lord among wits but I find he is only a wit among Lords. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. View quote
Léon Blum
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. View quote
Anne Rice
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. (Marshall McLuhan)
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. View quote
Paul Valéry
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. View quote
Abigail Adams
I have often thought, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter. View quote
Joseph Addison
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. View quote
A. A. Milne
I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together. View quote
Kim Novak
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two. View quote
John Dryden
He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. View quote
John Dryden
As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust." View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. (Coretta Scott King)
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient, comes, and lo is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable. View quote
Robert Browning
The dominant social thought shapes the institutionalized order of society... and the malfunctioning of established institutions in turn alters social thought. View quote
Theodore Schultz
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt